The spellshaper is a practitioner of wild magic who casts his spells
by virtue of raw magical talent or gift, as opposed to a wild mage's academic,
systematic approach.

Spellshapers share the sorcerer's intuitive understanding for arcane
magic. They memorize spells like a wizard, yet have a second resource at
their disposal: A Spellshaper has the ability to "weave" raw magic energy
into spell effects of his desire, without need of preparing those spells
ahead of time. This talent is anything but unfailing, and using it on a regular
basis requires as much luck as recklessness. Persons who use such a talent
aren't very popular among conservative spellcasters.

Unlike the sorcerer, the spellshaper may learn spells from scrolls,
and memorize and cast them like a wizard. Being opportunists at heart, rarely
a spellshaper renounces this relative reliable way of working magic. It's
usually reserved for those protective and last-resort spells that really
need to work, though. The spellshaper's talent to cast spells spontaneously
is so convenient that he prefers to use it whenever possible.

Neglecting conventional spellcasting, and focussing on chaotic wild
magic doesn't come without a price: A spellshaper can't memorize as many
spells as a true mage, and his progress in getting access to new spell levels
is much slower.

Persons of this profession also tend to be a bit eccentric: Their
undisciplined nature was what led them to their alternative way of spellcasting
in the first place, and constant contact with chaotic wild magic affects
the spellshaper's personality even more. Similar to a bard, a spellshaper
has a lot of interests: He intuitively learns a bit of everything that crosses
his path, but lacks the discipline to master these things to the same extend
as a more focused character.

Most spellshapers have the wisdom not to rely exclusively on their
dangerous and unpredictable spell ability. They hedge their bets by learning
physical combat as well. They aren't warriors, but a spellshaper's abilities
in melee combat are close to those of a thief. As he gets more experienced,
the spellshaper may learn special abilities that improve his combat techniques
even more, these abilities include backstabbing, mastery in the dagger
proficiency and the unique ability to fight with two weapons at once without
facing any penalties.

One of the spellshaper's more eccentric character-traits is that he
refuses any training in the use of missile weapons; for ranged combat, a
spellshaper uses magic, and if magic fails he prefers melee.Like all mages, the spellweaver needs a high intelligence score, but
many of his special abilities have a high dexterity score as prerequisite.